Mexico's Vicente Fox banned from Venezuela

[Eugene]

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Source: CNN

Mexico's Vicente Fox banned from Venezuela

By Marilia Brocchetto and Hilary Clarke, CNN
Updated 1402 GMT (2202 HKT) July 17, 2017

(CNN) — Venezuelan authorities have declared former Mexican President Vicente Fox a "persona non grata" and banned him from ever returning to the country.

Fox was in Venezuela, along with other former Latin American presidents, to act as an observer in Sunday's non-binding referendum called by the opposition on government plans to reform the constitution.

Link to tweet

In a series of tweets, the Venezuelan foreign minister, Samuel Moncada, says Fox abused the goodwill of the Venezuelan people and came to the country to "promote violence and the intervention by foreign world powers."

"As a preventative measure to protect our people, Señor Fox will never again be able to come back to Venezuela," Moncada wrote.

Nearly 7.2 million people took part in the unofficial vote, with the overwhelming majority coming out against Maduro's plan.

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/17/americas/vicente-fox-venezuela-ban/index.html

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Seems to me VFM Moncada - you doth protest too much -

A majority of the cities in Ven..are so crime ridden why would anyone want to visit....all one needs to do is look up the most dangerous cities in the world - those poor people are starving for leadership and everything else for that matter - so corrupt...someone needs to step up and tell it like it is....

Next V Fox will not be allowed in the US....he wouldn't want to anyway...I don't want to be here.....

[GatoGordo]

2. Where do you want to be?

There is a lot I don't like about America right now, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. (Not that I wouldn't want to visit other places!) America is the best and worst (Trump) of everything.

Its a mostly rhetorical question, but I would like to know.